Whether it’s from a balcony or a bathroom – lift up your voice and lift up your spirits in song. By way of a little encouragement, here’s a snippet from the Make, Do & Friends natural voice choir in Westhorpe, demonstrating just how glorious it is when we sing … as you can just hear […]
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COVID-19 Update
Following UK Government advice, we are suspending all face-to-face delivery of our projects until further notice. We know that the need for creativity and company is even more important than ever right now, and are looking at new ways to support the communities of people we work with. It is our intention to continue working […]
Suffolk Artlink’s COVID-19 Policy
Suffolk Artlink is following advice in relation to the ongoing coronavirus situation. You can find our current COVID 19 Policy here.
Meet the artist – Tom Hobden
We love to shine a light on the talented artists we get to work with on our projects, and this week it’s the turn of dance artist, Tom Hobden. Tom is part of the multi-disciplinary artist team that is helping to develop our VR Adventures project, so he’s currently playing around with new technology and […]
Celebrating creatively at Wingfield Barns
The rain stopped raining, the wind stopped blowing and the sun came out and shone on our Creative Celebration at Wingfield Barns this Wednesday, 4th March. By midday, adults and school children alike were hand-crafting paper, creating animations, producing beautiful poetry and even blowing paint bubbles, all in the name of celebrating what they love […]
Make, Do & Friends visit Beyton
It was lovely to meet so many people at Beyton today and hear some of their wonderful stories about the village. From recollections of being taken from the infant school, complete with chair, to sit and witness the blowing up the last remaining pill box in the village, to a beautifully drawn map of all […]
New creative get-togethers for older people in 2020
As Make, Do & Friends moves into its second year, we are pleased to announce a new programme of free creative and social events bringing older generations together with their friends and neighbours in rural towns and villages in Suffolk. Let by professional artists, the sessions will free and the activities as varied as the […]
Creative Careers event at Roman Hill
Just back from a very full morning at Roman Hill Primary School, Lowestoft, and their Creative Careers event. During the course of the morning, each Year Group visited the event and was challenged to try and guess what sort of job we did. As you can see from these suggestions, the children came up with […]
New Creative Festivals Collaboration
A new collaborative partnership of Creative Festivals is aiming to turn May 2020 into a month of creativity and culture: Age of Creativity: throughout May 2020 Get Creative Festival: 9-17 May 2020 Creativity & Wellbeing Week: 18-24 May 2020 With creativity and wellbeing now high on the agenda in policy across culture, health, ageing, social […]
Meet the artist – Emily Godden
Multidisciplinary artist Emily is a new member of the Suffolk Artlink team, joining us for our pioneering new arts and wellbeing project that uses virtual reality technology to improve wellbeing for people in health and care settings in Suffolk and Norfolk. Based in Suffolk, Emily has shown works around the UK and beyond, exhibiting at […]